yimbycon
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@yimbycon
Do you know the con that is YIMBY? See affordable units destroyed for luxury housing? Tag us & share w/ #yimbycon. Share widely & stop the ruin of our cities.
In #YimbyUtopia, it is as simple as "supply and demand." Wrong: developers now game the data mining process of vacancy rates to have them appear deceptively low to incentivize more investment & zoning incentives; then rents always increase. It is as simple as greed. #yimbycon
The American Jobs Plan mirrors past efforts at affordable #housing that contributed to our problems and failed Black Americans. We need to take housing out of the private market. Our latest from @HJacobCarlson and @gpbaiocchi: bostonreview.net/class-inequali…
I would love you to watch this, because I suspect this might be the most important issue of all.
@TaupeAvenger @smhten @oevans82 Nope. Don't change the subject. You asserted that research about the incompatibility of capital accumulation and emissions mitigation is "bunk". Let's stick on how you can't name even a single example of that research and are just making stuff up to be a jerk.
a screaming truth about the soho upzoning is that the developers’ incentives are allowed to be so much higher becoz there are indeed, a lot of hot and expensive properties in the area in lower, or even mid, income areas, that’s not possible: *that’s* the reason why they target..
